He walked slowly over, his hand stretching out to touch them. It was cold to the touch. No one had laid on the bed since last night, where even the young lady’s faintly fragrant scent had dissipated so much he almost could not detect it anymore.

She has gone missing.

His spiritual consciousness spread out hundreds of meters, and he still did not detect a single sliver of her presence anywhere.

The pair of deep and mesmerizing violet orbs of Lou Jun Yao’s slowly turned dark, a little bit at a time. He stood up from the edge of the bed and the air around him fell grave and severe, feeling like one had gone down into a freezing cellar.

Wait a minute.

Lou Jun Yao’s irises suddenly contracted, and his figure suddenly disappeared from its spot in that instant.

When he reappeared, he was by the enormous lake in the divine temple, where there was a highly lifelike jade eagle carving with its wings widely spread, its noble head held high, and clear water cascaded down from its wide open mouth.

Lou Jun Yao walked over to stop right in front of the lake and crouched down, reaching a hand into the water, like he was feeling for something in there. Moments later, Lou Jun Yao pulled his hand out with a splash.

In his hand that was dripping with water, and tied to a fine red string, hung a beautiful and exquisitely crafted blood red ring, that looked exactly the same as the one worn on the man’s ring finger.

That ring on his finger was the one that Qing Yu removed from her neck and put on for him herself.

She had said that this pair of rings had been hanging around her neck since her previous life and although she did not know the rings’ origins, they meant a lot to her and were something very dear to her, never once leaving her person.

The fact that she had given him one, signalled how important he was to her, and it was also a form of her acknowledgement of him.

But now, this ring that was so important to her had actually been thrown into the lake.

Lou Jun Yao’s face turned frighteningly dark and forbidding, his clenched fist tightening around the ring he held in his palm when he suddenly thought of something important. If he were to accidentally destroy the ring, being unable to hold back his strength in a fit of anger, that would cause him to suffer an irreplaceable loss.

He then relaxed the grip of his hand, and kept the ring safely in his robes before his chest.

The most important thing now, was to find out where she is.

Although he had a jolly good notion where in his heart, he needed an affirmative answer as soon as possible.

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On another side, after Qing Luo Yan returned back to her sleeping chambers, she gazed at the strangely shaped moon for a long while, for such a long period that she did not even notice that her neck had grown stiff and numb, before she then came back to her senses.

Her lips stiffened at the corners and she had just turned around when her eyes flared wide, startled by the sight of the man standing there, who had appeared all of a sudden from out of nowhere.